Most of my confidential reports – like one on the Kosovo conflict for the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB) in Vienna – I wrote for, and during my work at, the Interdisciplinary Research Programme on Root Causes of Human Rights Violations (PIOOM) at Leiden University between 1998 and 2002.
Afterwards, I wrote other advisory policy papers and reports, like Research Into Political Unrest (2002) during my partnership in my father’s TenDam Management Consultancy (originally http://www.damconsult.nl; then www.damconsult.com; now www.hanstendam.blogspot.com), and Rebellion, terrorism, other violence (2007), both of which can be considered preparations and precursors to my current book project Conceptualising Brutality and Violence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming).
Due to confidentiality clauses, I cannot reproduce and make available the confidential reports in full, but only the formal contracts and the titles with their abstracts in the list below.
Reports & papers
®: originally, or could be considered as, advisory reports with policy recommendations.
∆: In the near future, I may make available some of my paper and powerpoint presentations at (guest) lectures and conferences, to be shown on a separate webpage on this site.
2014
Definitionsidentityviolence2014
2013
2010
‘Private Military Contractors: Deploy or Avoid? – Lessons from the ‘Blackwater scandal’ in Iraq’
2007
‘How to define rebellion, terrorism and other violence’, (short version) & How to define rebellion, terrorism and other violence’(long version)
NB: I have regularly modified and improved some of the arguments and definitions since then; these should be evident in more recent publications. Yet the main points still stand.
2003
Guest lecture on ‘Islamist terrorism in the Balkans’, University of Amsterdam and extra information:
Organization scheme UÇK and bibliography
NB: this is an example of one of my first lectures and academic presentations. ∆
2002
1999 – 2000
Confidential report on Kosovo for the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB) Vienna, Austria.